When legal investigators
work on a plaintiff’s
personal injury
case, the early stages
of the assignment involve
pinning down the cause of the injuries
and proving who was responsible for causing
them. Once liability is established, there will be
a delay of some months while medical treatment
and therapy take place and additional
expert physicians can be brought into the case
to evaluate and treat the patient and, of course,
be prepared to testify.

Murders of pregnant women for their
unborn babies are brutal and savage
crimes. The offender literally cuts the
fetus from the victim mother’s womb
in a bizarre replication of a cesarean
section procedure, according to Vernon
Geberth, M.S., M.P.S., a New York
homicide and forensic consultant. This
type of homicide is statistically rare, he
reports, but not without precedent.

This is also our annual Surveillance Issue which covers important topics starting with our cover story, How To Select a Surveillance Vehicle. Obviously it depends on where you work and the type of cases you work on, but this article will give you some good tips and what works best for many private investigators. We also include other related articles providing specific steps private investigators can take to significantly increase their success when hired to conduct a surveillance assignment.

Sitting in my living room on a Sunday morning, having my
first cup of tea, with Fox News on in the background, I
was reviewing details of a difficult surveillance when I
heard, “The FAA has released its proposed guidelines for
the commercial use of drones….”